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Three Jamaican students cop $500,000 (JMD) Gillian Whylie Scholarships

Tiana-Lee Gray and mother Natalie Lawrence receives award from Paul Whylie husband of Gillian Whylie - Gillian Whylie Scholarship Wolmer High School feature

With the Covid-19 pandemic raging and causing economic hardship on so many, the Gillian Whylie Scholarship Fund (GWSF) is pleased to announce the award of $500,000 in scholarships to three worthy students for the 2021-22 academic year.   Zori Blake of DeCarteret College received a scholarship valued at $200,000 to support her first year studies […]

Deported to Jamaica This Navy Veteran Returns to America 10 Years Later

Deported to Jamaica This Navy Veteran Returns to America 10 Years Later - Howard Bailey

Howard Bailey, who was born in Jamaica and is a United States Navy veteran, was deported from the US in 2010 and forced to live for over ten years in Jamaica, separated from his family. He has now returned to the US to be reunited with his family in Virginia thanks to the intervention of […]

Jamaica Consul General Miami and Jamaica Heroes Modernized partner to commemorate Jamaica’s Heritage Month and National Heroes Day on Oct 17, 2021

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The Jamaica Heroes Modernized (JHM) BACK THE CULTURE SHOW under the patronage of the Jamaica Consul General Miami will commemorate Jamaica’s National Heritage Month and National Heroes Day through a live stream event on the Jamaica National Heroes Facebook page. Jamaica’s leading historians, cultural stalwarts, academics, and entertainers living in Jamaica and the diaspora will […]

Top 7 Jamaican & Caribbean News Stories You Missed The Week Ending October 15th, 2021

Jamaican and Caribbean weekly news stories you missed this week

THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES JAMAICAN MINISTER OF EDUCATION ASKS FOR PROBE OF MINISTRY’S $124 MILLION LOSS Fayval Williams, Jamaica’s Minister of Education, has requested that the Financial Investigation Division launch a probe into the circumstances of the multi-million dollar losses at the Education Ministry involving payments to the Joint Committee on Tertiary Education (JCTE). […]

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL – “Are You the Expected One?”

John the Baptizer was not so sure anymore.  It was not that long ago that he was performing baptisms in the River Jordan when “he saw Jesus coming to him and said, ‘Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He on behalf of whom I said, ‘After […]

Three Jamaicans Listed On Essence List Of Top Black-Owned Beauty Brands

Three Jamaicans Listed On Essence List Of Top Black-Owned Beauty Brands - Dr Rose Ingleton

Three Jamaican entrepreneurs have been included by Essence magazine on its list of the top 75 black-owned cosmetics and skin-care brands for shoppers to try. The individuals behind these businesses should be recognized, according to Essence, because they took action to fulfill the needs of the black community when no one else would. These businesses […]

British-Jamaican Brothers Digital Insurance Startup Valued at US $1.25 billion

British-Jamaican Brothers Digital Insurance Startup Valued at US 1-25 billion

British Jamaican twin brothers Oliver and Alexander Kent-Braham, 29, have succeeded in growing their startup digital insurance company Marshmallow by raising $85 million in funding from Passion Capital. The funding total boosted the firm’s valuation to $1.25 billion (£910 million), which gives the firm a “unicorn” status. “Unicorn” is the term used in Silicon Valley […]